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First serious PC

liff
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Hi!

 

My dear laptop of 7 years is starting to show his age and it made me look into buying a new computer.

 

With this PC I wish to combine two aspects - a little gaming and longevity.

 

1) What kind of games? Mostly The Sims of all sorts, Portal, FEZ and many games that I haven't had a chance to try yet. So I want to be a little flexible.

2) Having a PC for 7 years or more isn't unimaginable to me. I really want to build a solid computer that will still be considered a good PC in a few years (not 7 but maybe 3?). I know I will probably have to upgrade some things but I want to minimise any additional expenses in the future.

 

My boyfriend helped me pick some parts and I thought it wouldn't hurt to hear a second opinion. I'm from Europe so the prices on the partpicker list don't matter. But still, I have about 800€ to spend.

I already have a mouse, a keyboard, a monitor (Dell U2414h), I'm recycling an SSD (250GB) and an old GPU (non reference GTX 660).

 

Thanks in advance for your help :)

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: *Intel Core i5-4690 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($213.78 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: *Asus Z97-C ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($127.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: *Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($85.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: *Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($59.99 @ Best Buy)
Case: *Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($107.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: *Corsair CSM 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($124.98 @ Amazon)
Total: $720.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-21 18:09 EST-0500

 

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If you could elaborate on what kind of games you would play (especially "many games that I haven't had a chance to try yet"), that would be helpful.

Thanks :)

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The problem is that this is an nVidia product and scoring any nVidia product a "zero" is also highly predictive of the number of nVidia products the reviewer will receive for review in the future.

On 2015-01-28 at 5:24 PM, Victorious Secret said:

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I wasn't wrong. It's extremely rare that I am. I provided sources as well. Different devs can disagree. Further, we now have confirmed discrepancy from Twitter about he use of the pre-release 1080 driver in AMD's demo despite the release 1080 driver having been out a week prior.

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Maybe Skyrim, Minecraft, The Last of Us, The Wolf Among Us... I'm interested in most games that include a great plot and not just ''pointless shooting'' (don't hate me). For example, games like Battlefield I don't care for.

I can say only so much because I really don't have any experience with a lot of games. This will be the first computer that will allow me to experiment with different genres.

 

Also, I forgot to mention that OS is not a problem.

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go for the i5 4690k and try an fit in a r7 260x or r9 270 for more performance in gaming incase u wanna try something a bit more tasking, the ssd is nice but depending on the make and model of that ssd and what you use it for, you might want to change it out for a samsun 840/850 at a later date, but that aint a  bit prio.

CPU-i5 4690k 4.4ghz @ 1.190V, MOBO-MSI z97 gaming 3, Cooler-hyper 212 evo, GPU- r9 290x asus directcuII (-37Mv), Storage-120gb v300(switching soon), 1tb caviar blue, CASE-Red/black h440, PSU-Antec TPC 650.

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